The humble webcam hasn’t changed much over the past couple of years with most models topping out at about 2 Megapixels, but it now seems like Microsoft is about to change this with the soon to launch LifeCam Cinema.
This is the first consumer webcam to support 720p video at 30fps. That’s the full 1,280×720, unlike [...]

The Mr Jones The Average Day Watch – Now it’s not the looks that matter most with this one, it’s all about function. Rather than simply telling you the time, the Mr Jones The Average Day watch face breaks 24 hours down into blocks of ‘average activities’. Essentially it shows you when you should be eating, [...]

Another Apple patent is doing the rounds showing ideas for a user to send texts, emails and documents while still on another callThe iPhone 3G S has only been out a few months, but patents uncovered this week have given us a sneak peek at Apple’s ideas for future handsets.First filed in February 2008, the [...]

Gene Munster, Senior Analyst at US-based investment bank Piper Jaffray, has predicted that Apple will launch a branded telly with integrated DVR and support for film, music and game downloads.
The Apple-branded set – not to be confused with the existing Apple TV set-top box – would wirelessly sync with iPods, iPhones and Macs, and “command [...]

Fancied getting your fingers on a Nokia 5800? Hold on there gadget grabber because its just got better with the Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition. Nokia’s kicked its the Nokia 5800 music phone into higher gear to turn it into a car friendly sat-nav phone. The Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition comes with Ovi Maps installed, voice-guided navigation (including [...]

Canon has introduced a touchscreen interface to its IXUS compact camera range with the Canon Digital IXUS 200 IS. The 12.1MP Canon Digital IXUS 200 IS boasts a 24mm ultra-wide angle with a 5x optical zoom. The lens marks the first time the IXUS range has featured a 24mm lens. Break out the party poppers folks.The [...]

Pictures and video of a mysterious leaked handset running HTC’s TouchFlo 3D OS suggests Windows Mobile 6.5 will embrace multi-touch.

If Windows Mobile 6.5 does support multi-touch, it’ll put it back in the game against the iPhone and finger-friendly Android phones like the HTC Hero. This news reaches us before any WinMo 6.5 screen has been [...]

Pioneer has made two new additions to its Navgate integrated entertainment and sat nav systems, with the AVIC-F310BT and AVIC-F910BT.
Both models provide maps in 2D or 3D, real traffic information up to 93 miles away, and the ability to store up to 400 contacts from your phone to make and answer calls handsfree using your [...]

It seems G1 owners who hopped on the Android bandwagon from the beginning could now be penalised thanks to the G1’s limited amount of on board memory.The 256MB internal flash memory available on the first Android handset doesn’t give much room to play with when it comes to updates – the most Cupcake update already had [...]

Samsung has just confirmed the dual-LCD ST500 and ST550 cameras leaked earlier today, and also unveiled the Wi-Fi packing ST1000 as well.Alongside the wireless connectivity that allows you to email and post photos and videos to social networking sites without the need of a PC, the fully-connected ST1000 also boasts Bluetooth and is DLNA compliant as [...]

Palm Pre caused quite a fuss when it launched in the States two months ago, but now it’s found itself having to defend claims that its bigshot handset is abusing users’ privacy.
Pre owner and software developer Joey Hess kicked off the controversy when he noticed his phone was sending back information like his location, details [...]

The Sony Reader PRS-505- pesky old DRM and the fact that it didn’t play nice with all the formats we like brought us down. Now Sony has announced that it’ll make all the titles in its ebook store available in the open source ePub format.
The move means that you’ll be able to read any of the [...]

Aside from Mio’s Knightrider design and Becker’s Ferrari-red Traffic Assist Pro, sat-navs have long been the squares of the tech world. But thanks to bonkers Russian design studio Art Lebedev, a new concept is showing them a curvaceous future.
The slightly pompously-named Navigarius GPS might be a way off production – possibly years, judging by the [...]

Show off your wealth everytime you make a call

Move over Vertu, Sony Ericsson is muscling in on the ‘more money than sense’ market, tempting affluent fashionistas to part with their wedge for the newly-launched Jalou, which also comes in a Dolce & Gabbana variation for label addicts.
Men, we have some bad news, it’s not aimed [...]

It’s fast turning into ‘gang up on Google’ week in the tech world – FaceBook and Friendfeed were at it yesterday, and today at 3pm UK time Nokia and Microsoft are calling a joint press conference to reveal a mysterious collaborative project. Our optimistic, gadget-hungry side is hoping they’ll announce a Nokia netbook that runs Windows 7, [...]